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GetToKnow - Il Gran Sasso

Gran Sasso is the highest mountain of the Appennini, with a 2912 Mt of altitude and 130km perimeter. Into his depth, there are the national physical laboratories famous all over the world. It is also a famous sky site, with some skiing resorts reached and appreciated by the whole Nation.
There is a hotel that serves and supports the sky slopes.
It is also well-known because it was the place where Mussolini was prisoned during the end of the WWII. The mountain becomes famous also because of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio. He wrote about it as the starting place of the Transumanza, an ancient practice made by farmers: bringing the sheep in a warmer place, somewhere to the South of Italy.

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